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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1224: Do You Need Therapy? by Mark Manson on Emotional Wellness & Mental Freedom

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mark Manson asks if you need therapy. Episode 1224: Do You Need Therapy? by Mark Manson on Emotional Wellness & Mental Freedom Mark Manson was a full-time professional dating coach for men from 2008 until 2011. Sick of the industry, he wrote his first book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, and changed the name and focus of his business to address broader self-development topics for men. The book took off, selling tens of thousands of copies. As he branched out into deeper issues of masculinity, self-worth, and the changing cultural landscape, the site grew. By 2013, he had begun writing about larger cultural issues — gender relations, happiness, ambition, life purpose, and cultural perspectives he had gathered while living in various countries around the world. Despite the fact that the business was still directed at men, thousands of women began reading and asking for advice as well. That same year, he made the leap to his own site and domain, broadening the demographics of his audience. The site exploded, garnering millions of views each month. Check out his book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F--- on his site or Amazon. The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/therapy Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Do you need therapy by Mark Manson of Mark Manson dot net. Everyone has heard of therapy in some form or another.

1:57.2

But a lot of people don't have a clear idea of what it is or what they're getting into. Once stereotype is that you lay on a couch and cry like a child.

2:06.2

Another is that it's just some guy who prescribes you pills another is that it's some guy who shows you ink plots and asks you what you see.

2:13.9

As with many things these are characters created by pop culture for entertainment purposes. Most therapy is far more dull and far more personal than this.

2:23.8

The idea behind therapy is that most of our decision making comes from unconscious aspects of our mind.

2:29.9

As long as these parts of our mind are unconscious we're unable to exercise control over them.

2:35.3

The primary purpose of therapy is to help us become aware of these sections of our unconscious except them and then begin exerting control over them.

2:44.5

For instance, if you get uncontrollably angry when you are significant other doesn't call back.

2:49.3

There's something buried within your unconscious causing you to react in such an irrational manner.

2:54.4

By attending therapy you can start digging into the past, your emotional development, traumas, life problems, childhood and find the trigger.

3:04.0

Maybe your mother made a habit of leaving you behind when you were most vulnerable. Perhaps your relationship involves someone cheating on you repeatedly or they were rarely available.

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